VERSAILLES – Versailles High School senior Samuel Prakel finished sixth at the Foot Locker Cross Country Championship Midwest Regionals to qualify for the national finals.

Competing at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, Wis. Saturday, Prakel raced against the region’s top runners in a 5,000-meter race. On a day in which the temperature was in the mid-20s, Prakel finished the race in 15:04 to place sixth.

Jake Leingang of Bismarck, N.D., won the race with a time of 14:56. Rounding out the top five were Sam Wharton from Tippecanoe High School in Tipp City with a time of 14:56; Nicholas Raymond from Erie, Mich., with a time of 15:02; Patrick Perrier from O’Fallon, Ill., with a time of 15:03; and Grant Nykaza from Beecher, Ill., with a time of 15:04.

By finishing in the top 10 in his region, Prakel earned an invitation to the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships National Finals on Dec. 8 at Morley Field, Balboa Park in San Diego.

For more information on the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, visit http://www.footlockercc.com/.